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4 Pfennige - Ernest August
| Issuer | Hannover, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1838-1842 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the prancing horse of Hannover, set against a vertically lined field, surmounted by a royal crown with fleurs-de-lis and pearl ornaments. The circular legend reads KÖN. HANNOV. SCHEIDE= M: (König Hannover Scheidemünze), identifying the issuer and denomination type. The design is rendered in a clean neoclassical style typical of early 19th-century German state coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ernest August came to the Hanoverian throne in 1837 under immediate controversy — his first act as king was to annul the liberal constitution of 1833, provoking the famous protest of the Göttingen Seven, a group of professors that included the Brothers Grimm. This small billon issue belongs to the opening years of his reign, struck while that constitutional crisis was still reverberating through German intellectual circles.
The .218 fineness places this firmly in fiduciary territory, a deliberate policy to stretch silver reserves across high-volume petty coinage.